2015 American Transplant Congress
Intra-Renal Cytokine Measurement Detected During Kidney Allograft Biopsies Portend Severity of Histological Injury
Division of Nephrology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Histological changes observed on renal allograft biopsies, although considered the current standard for evaluation of allograft injury, lack specificity and disease activity assessment. We devised…2015 American Transplant Congress
Predicting and Preventing 30-Day Readmission Following Kidney Transplantation: A Single Center Study
Purpose: Readmissions are a major morbidity following kidney transplantation (KT). Prior studies report a 30-day readmission rate of 30%. Limited data exist on risk facotors…2015 American Transplant Congress
Ureteral Length in Living Donor Kidney Transplantation; Does Size Matter?
Transplant Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Introduction: Urological complications are common after kidney transplantation. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of ureteral length on ureter strictures or…2015 American Transplant Congress
Pancreas After Failed Islet Transplantation; a Successful Strategy to Maintain Insulin Independence
Introduction: As islet transplantation (tx) remains an experimental and uninsured procedure, there are no established protocols to achieve insulin independence following failure of the islet…2015 American Transplant Congress
Noncanonical Anergic Alloreactive B Cells in Transplantation Tolerance
Depart of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago.
The observation that operationally tolerant patients (TOL) display higher numbers of blood B cells and a B cell gene signature compared to stable kidney allograft…2015 American Transplant Congress
Socioeconomic Determinants of Racial Disparities in Access to Preemptive Live Donor Kidney Transplantation
Racial/ethnic minorities have less access to preemptive live donor kidney transplantation (PLDKT) than whites. Our objective was to examine determinants of racial/ethnic disparities in PLDKTs…2015 American Transplant Congress
Inhibition of Endogenous Memory CD8 T Cell Infiltration Into Cardiac Allografts Subjected to Prolonged Cold Ischemic Storage Is Required to Promote Long-Term Graft Survival
Endogenous memory CD8 T cells infiltrate MHC-mismatched cardiac allografts and produce IFN-γ in response to donor class І MHC within 24 hrs after graft reperfusion…2015 American Transplant Congress
Risk Associated With DCD Kidney Transplantation Varies by Donor Characteristics
Studies have shown that comparable kidney graft survival between donors after brain death (DBD) and donors after circulatory death (DCD) overall. However, the differential risk…2015 American Transplant Congress
Refinement of Non-Invasive Diagnostic Criteria to Differentiate Tumor from Bland Portal Vein Thrombosis Before Liver Transplant in Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
Differentiating tumor vs bland portal vein thrombosis (PVT) is essential in determining liver transplant (LT) candidacy for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The primary aim…2015 American Transplant Congress
Germinal Centre Autoimmunity Mediates Progression of Allograft Vasculopathy, With Essential Help Provided By T Follicular Cells
Dept of Surgery, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Introduction: : In our previous work we have shown that donor CD4 T cells within heart grafts initiate anti-nuclear autoantibody responses. Here we clarify the…
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